Cat Moir

Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism

Ontology, Epistemology, Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

In Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics , Cat Moir offers a new interpretation of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Moir challenges perceptions of Bloch as a naïve utopian thinker via a close contextualised reading of his speculative materialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9789004272866
• ISBN-10: 9004272860
• Artikelnr.: 57096312

Autorenporträt

Cat Moir, Ph.D. (2014), University of Sheffield, is Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on the history of ideas in the German-speaking world.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. The materialism problem
2. Ontology
Nature contra mechanism
Matter as the subject of nature
The logic of matter
Real possibility
Teleology without a telos
3. Epistemology
The structure of the concept
The influence of neo-Kantianism
The role of irony
Rationalism, empiricism, and practice
4. Politics
The German Philosopher of the October Revolution?
For Stalin, against Hitler
The Politics of Speculative Materialism
Speculation, totality, and immanent critique
Chapter 5: Relevance and critique
The speculative turn: Bloch and Meillassoux
New materialism: Bloch and Bennett
Ecological materialisms: Bloch, Foster, and Moore
Epilogue: The speculative expanse
Bibliography